Listening to Noel Fielding talk is like trying to catch paper butterflies in a hurricane. His ideas whirl and flutter past. A man known for his partying – "The problem is, I never think, Oh, I'm a little bit drunk now, I'll go home. I just carry on to the next day" – Fielding has spent this year staying in, not drinking, and working, working, working.

Some of the results are spread before us. Fielding is known for his touching, fantastical stand-up, both solo and with Julian Barratt, as The Mighty Boosh. But he's also an artist, and he's brought a whole pile of works for me to see, before he installs a selection at Soho patisserie Maison Bertaux. Tania, one of two sisters who run Maison Bertaux, started displaying and dealing art-works there a couple of years ago. Jónsi from Sigur Rós has shown his work, and Diva Zappa has a show scheduled.

Noel had his first show there in late 2007 and he's looking forward to the launch of this one. "I was thinking of getting everyone to wear Bryan Ferry masks and then I'll dress up as the Jelly Fox and challenge them to a mass game of badminton. Or something."

This makes more sense when you know that the show is to be called Bryan Ferry vs The Jelly Fox. It will feature a shrine to Ferry, including a large portrait of the Roxy Music singer, as well as a picture of a tree, with Ferry masks hanging off, and another with a headless man on a hill, a Bryan Ferry kite flying high above his neck. The Jelly Fox is part of another convoluted fantasy, a little like The Wizard of Oz, in which three characters go in search of the Jelly Fox: "This one doesn't speak, this one says 'Am I nothing?' and this one, Little Chrissie, is the main narrator." . All may end up as part of a new series Fielding is making for E4.

What will it be like? Well, there are random stories in it, though Fielding says he got a little bored of narrative after the third series of the Boosh on BBC3. But he doesn't want to make a traditional sketch show, either. Not that his explanation of some of the concept (he's living in a jungle and becomes the local newsreader) sounds traditional, though he insists he's partly inspired by the Kenny Everett show.

Anyhow, E4 are pretty much leaving him to it. He's making the series with an old art school friend, Nige, and they plan to do most of it themselves, filming with friends and adding computerised animation and art. Also a soundtrack, by Serge from Kasabian.

Aside from the art and the TV show, Fielding has also just finished making a Boosh recording with Julian Barratt in New York. They stayed in the Chelsea hotel and Noel did some of his paintings there ("The cleaners gave a critique"). And he's also come up with a whole new stand-up show. He indicates a row of paintings of faces, in bright colours, like the masks from totem poles.

"The audience," he says. "I had them all up in a row in my studio and I did my stand-up in front of them. "They're just like people in the crowd looking at me, going: 'That's not funny.'" And he laughs, because that's funny.

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